Police in training for 'Mumbai-style' gun attack in UK
A "scoop" by the BBC's Security Correspondent, sub-titled:
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UK security chiefs have ordered an acceleration in police training to prepare for any future "Mumbai-style" gun attack in a public place.
Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11622218
The most interesting part is the embedded interview with an ex-SAS officer and listen to last few seconds.
Moderator's Note: I have changed the title (October 2010) to reflect the posts on the impact of the attacks.
UK military join UK police?
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Originally Posted by
carl
David:
The ex-SAS officer said UK patrol officers would need military training in order to effectively respond to such an attack... I would guess that a lot of combat experienced men have been or are entering our ...American police a valuable human resource with which to combat a Mumbai style attack. Would it be the same in the UK?
Carl,
I think the numbers of ex-military recruits to the UK police has dropped substantially in the last twenty years, partly as our military has shrunk, some have joined the PMC sector and the police has gone "up market" for college graduate-level education. A lot of UK firearms officers have no military background. Plus the police have not been recruiting large numbers and many now expect not to recruit for sometime - "cuts" in public spending (13% budget cut for my own employer, in one year).
Pakistan and the Mumbai Attacks: The Untold Story
Thanks to LWOT posting for drawing attention to this long article by a website I know of and rarely visit:
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Sebastian Rotella of ProPublica has produced a lengthy profile of Sajid Mir, the shadowy Pakistani figure with close links to Pakistani security forces who reportedly ran the 2008 Mumbai attacks for Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Link:http://www.propublica.org/article/pa...e-untold-story
Some of the article on a quick read is not new.
Mumbai: US LE on lessons learnt
Via an Indian contact an article in the magazine of the Intl. Assoc. Chiefs of Police, reporting on a LAPD & Las Vegas PD visit to Mumbai: http://www.policechiefmagazine.org/m...issue_id=22011
Under 'More Questions than Answers' subtitle:
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To effectively learn from the lessons of Mumbai, police leaders must ask themselves these questions:
How effectively can your agency’s personnel observe, record, collect, process, interpret, and share suspicious preoperational terrorist activity?
How efficiently could your communications (9-1-1) center process the volume of phone calls, and what is the realistic communication and interaction between police, fire, and emergency medical services (EMS) under these circumstances?
How does your communications center relay real-time tactical information to your intelligence/fusion center?
How will your intelligence/fusion center relay actionable intelligence to the field commanders from police, fire, and EMS?
What response capability do you have from a regional perspective? Does your current response protocol involve only SWAT/tactical teams? Does your multiagency response protocol involve multiple venues in a coordinated attack?
How will the fire and emergency medical services react when facing an armed threat as well as active fires and wounded victims?
I recommend checking an Indian outlook:http://www.sunday-guardian.com/analy...ath-of-attacks